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How to open a cellular service under your business name

March 19, 2011 If you own a small business, you can write off your cellular phone as an expense. However, if you try to open a cellular service with AT&T or Verizon, they will require a $400 deposit just as … Continue reading

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Is your Verizon Fios service going down the tubes?

February 17, 2011 Verizon Fios finally entered the building of Battery Park two years ago. Knowing the bad reputation of traditional Verizon phone service, Verizon made an initial effort to provide better service and steal away Time Warner cable customers. … Continue reading

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Comparing radiation leaks from major nuclear events

March 15, 2011 Now that the multiple nuclear reactors in Japan are in meltdown, possibly on the scale of Chernobyl in 1986, the key safety questions are “How will this radiation accident compare to other previously documented events, such as … Continue reading

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NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman gets it wrong

March 15, 2011 NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman gets it wrong when she tells America that they are essentially dumb for buying potassium iodide pills to prevent possibly radiation exposure and thyroid cancer. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIxOvAXz2_8 Related, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly singled out … Continue reading

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How to get Girl Scout Cookies in NYC

February 24th, 2011 Have those snobby Girl Scouts snubbed you on the cookie trail? Are you left out every year? Here’s how to find those cookies https://girlscoutsnyc.com/Common/CookiesPopUps.html (more…)

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PEPs routinely illegally parking personal cars

Update March 10, 2011 BatteryPark.TV reported on the problem of PEP officers parking illegally in bus stops, etc, and avoiding city parking tickets by placing official-looking parks badges in their personal car windows. A local paper is now reporting that … Continue reading

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Battery Park City park rangers assault BPC resident

January 29, 2011 At approximately 12:00 PM on January 29th, 20011, according to eyewitness Theresa Shabbos who lives one floor above 2 South End Avenue, local resident Adam Pratt was walking his small dog and arrived at the southeast corner … Continue reading

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Taxi driver violent behavior on the rise in NYC

March 6, 2011 According to ABC Channel 7, a taxi driver who refused to take a group of males from Manhattan to the Bronx drove instead to the Midtown North NYPD precinct. The group explained the situation and the police … Continue reading

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“Doctor” Drew has Narcissistic Personality Disorder

April 6, 2011 “Doctor” Drew Pinskey has given up all pretenses of professionalism and is now diagnosing celebrities based on short TV sound bites. Most notably, he did this with Charlie Sheen recently. The academic psychiatry community frowns upon this. … Continue reading

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Running a successful restaurant in Battery Park is not hard

March 5, 2011 With so many restaurants in Battery Park being shut down, such as The Gate House, Johnney’s Fish Grill, Fox Hounds, Applebee’s, Steamers Landing, Pizza Bola, Pac Rim, etc, one might conclude that it is impossible to run … Continue reading

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How Wall Street banks have enabled socialism throughout American history

Op-Ed January 20, 2011 As the new congress begins, led by the Republican Party in the House, the traditional GOP ranks are now ramping up the rhetoric opposing the recently enacted financial reforms (FinReg) that will threaten Wall Street[1] earnings. … Continue reading

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Leno revives The Tonight Show after Conan leaves

February 4, 2011 Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien are not on speaking terms, but Conan should be blaming himself for why his Tonight Show failed. A chart of the ratings lat year showed a huge dip once Conan took over. … Continue reading

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Awesome video from a jet of the Shuttle launch

February 26, 2011 The Space Shuttle Discovery took off for the last time on February 24th. Someone on a commercial jet took this video. Enjoy httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_USPTmYXM (more…)

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Our other Photo of the Week

February 26, 2011 This is our other Photo of the Week. The Post story is here (more…)

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February 21 snow photos

February 21, 2011 (Click on images to expand) Photo by BatteryPark.TV (more…)

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The NFL needs to take a year off

Op-Ed February 7, 2011 By most accounts, Super Bowl 45 (XLV) was a big disappointment to fans and viewers, despite the actual game being good. Due to incompetent planning, more than a thousand fans were kicked out of their seats … Continue reading

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The Gate House to close

February 11, 2011 Eddie Yu, Battery Park restaurateur and owner of the Gate House, and former owner of Fox Hounds and Johnney’s Fish Grill (but NOT the owner of Au Mandarin according to Mr. Yu), announced that he will be … Continue reading

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It’s about jobs, stupid

February 12, 2011 HBO’s Bill Maher suggested to guest Arianna Huffington that President Obama has the 2012 election “in his pocket” because the list of GOP wannabes is so lame. She correctly replied that the high unemployment rate is untenable … Continue reading

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Bill Maher says that Glenn Beck and Palin have peaked

February 5, 2011 On February 4, Bill Maher made an interesting observation on his HBO show. He said that Glenn Beck’s comments on the spread of unrest on Northern African were embarrassing even for Fox viewers and that Sarah Palin … Continue reading

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Overthrow the Caps Lock

February 2, 2011 Awesome. Google is leading the way to eliminate the annoying Caps Lock forever! Kill the Caps Lock. Kill the Caps lock. May the Egyptian unrest spread to the keyboard. “Numbers lock” and “Insert” keys are next. We’re … Continue reading

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